Stellarium

3D acceleration

Asked by John Wilburn

I installed Stellarium on CentOS 6.2, and I am having the same problem as I did on Fedora 14 and Fedora 15. It keeps saying the video card doesn't support 3D acceleration. I had Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7 and Fedora 13 on this same computer before and Stellarium worked fine. For now I have Celestia, Kstars and Skychart working fine. Is this video card not supported because of newer ones now?

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

Maybe. Do you can write info about graphics card and which drivers you used for their?

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John Wilburn (valve-seat) said : 		#2

NV44 [GeForce 7100 GS]

X.Org X11 nouveau video driver

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Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead) said : 		#3

Hi John,

I've not used the Nouveau driver (as I don't have any NVidia hardware these days). It might be that it does not support some features which Stellarium requests. You can try to run the program from a terminal with the --safe-mode option set:

 % stellarium --safe-mode

Where % is your terminal prompt. This will prevent Stellarium trying to use some shaders (for performance enhancement), and will also force the use of the 1.x version of the OpenGL API.

Please reply here with the results.
Regards,

M

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John Wilburn (valve-seat) said : 		#4

Matthew,
                   Thank you very much. It is working in safemode, sluggish, but working. I forgot to say before that I also have Stellarium installed in Windows XP on this computer, and no problems. I did some checking around and found that nVidia proprietary drivers can be installed (at least on Fedora 14). I tried that but no drivers were found. Guess I'll either have to wait for new drivers or change my video card. I have a Radeon HD 5970 I may put in.

Thank you again Matthew. A bushel.

John